浪

Meaning

浪 centers on water in unrestrained motion: literal waves and billows, and by extension wandering or reckless behavior that moves without control.

• 浪漫ロマン
  N2

  romance (e.g. Arthurian romances); heroic tale

• 浪ろう

  person who has spent X years after graduating high school attempting to get admitted to (a specific) university

• 浪人ろうにん
  N1

  ronin; masterless samurai

• 浪費ろうひ
  N1

  waste; extravagance

• 放浪ほうろう

  wandering; roaming; drifting

• 浮浪ふろう

  vagrancy; vagabondage; wander around

• １浪いちろう

  failing college entrance exams and retaking them a year later

• 流浪るろう

  vagrancy; wandering; nomadism

• 波浪はろう

  waves; billows; surge

• 浪士ろうし

  ronin; lordless samurai

• 浪曲ろうきょく

  rōkyoku; naniwabushi; recitation of stories accompanied by samisen

• 浪花節なにわぶし

  naniwabushi; variety of sung narrative popular during the Edo period

• 放浪癖ほうろうへき

  vagrant habits; vagabondism; wanderlust

• 浮浪者ふろうしゃ
  N1

  vagrant; vagabond; tramp; homeless person; hobo; bum

• 仮面浪人かめんろうにん

  student who is trying to get into their preferred college while already enrolled at another college

• 多浪たろう

  failing entrance exams for repeated years

• 多浪生たろうせい

  high school graduate who has failed university entrance examinations multiple times

• 大学浪人だいがくろうにん

  student preparing to re-take initially failed university entrance examinations

• 大陸浪人たいりくろうにん

  Japanese adventurer (from the Meiji era to the end of WWII) who roamed mainland China and other parts of Asia, engaging in political activities, espionage, smuggling, etc.

• 天竺浪人てんじくろうにん

  wandering lordless samurai

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